Golfer Walter Hagen, Max Turner and Helen Robinson cutting cake at the 4th annual Pasadena Open tournament, Pasadena, 1931-1932

Item Overview

Title

Golfer Walter Hagen, Max Turner and Helen Robinson cutting cake at the 4th annual Pasadena Open tournament, Pasadena, 1931-1932

Date Created

[December 1931-January 1932]

Date

1931-12/1932-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Professional golfer Walter Hagen has the third highest count of major victories of all time (behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods). Max Turner was co-owner of the Turner and Stevens undertakers, a director of the Pasadena Department of Recreation and a director of the Community Playhouse. Helen Robinson had recently won the Sweetest Girl Contest in Chicago and was acting with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Photograph of (L to R) Walter Hagen, golf professional; Max Turner, Pasadena business man; and Helen Robinson, emerging MGM actress, grouped around a cake at a celebration during the 4th annual Pasadena Open golf tournament at the Brookside Golf Course. The message on the cake reads "Birthday Greetings, Pasadena Junior Chamber... 4th Annual $4,000 Open Golf Tour...Spectators watch from behind a low wall.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Walter Hagen, Max H. Turner, Helen Robinson
Text on negative sleeve: Hagen, Walter Golf

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Turner, Max H. (Max Harvey), 1903-1953
Pasadena Open (Golf tournament)
Robinson, Helen
Hagen, Walter, 1892-1969

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.164939

Latitude

-118.166990

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Golf--California--Pasadena